On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 04:07:36PM +0530, Sushil Suresh wrote: > Hi, > > At the moment we are using trace and ping to check the availability of a > particular site, and the status of a particular ISP > > The problem faced in making use of these commands in a script is that, they > may fail in case of congestion and may be misunderstood as failure of a > particular ISP. Your script should not rely on only one missed ping. You should add some intelligence to the script. BTW, what do you do with trace? > > Also how and why do you flush the route cache? Arthur covered this just fine ;-) Ramin > > with regards, > Sushil Suresh
